Snow-plow.



No. 7|n,853. Patented oct. 7, |902l w. w. Foss.

SNOW PLOW.

(Application led En. 28, 1902.) no Model.) l

By y AoHA/EYS? UNTTnn STATas PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM IV. FOSS, OF GOODHART, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SAMUEL W. BARKLEY, OF GOODHART, MICHIGAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,853, dated October '7, 1902.

Application filed March 28, 1902. Serial No. 100,438. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern: in Fig. 3, and the rear ends Agof the blades Beitknown tl1atI,`WILLIAM IV. Foss, acitiare curved outwardly and are inclined in an zen of the United States, and-a resident of upward and outward direction, as plainlyin- 55 Goodhart, in the county of Emmet and State dicated in Figs. 2 and 4.

5 of Michigan, have invented a new and Im- The bottom edges of the endsA2 are rounded proved Snow-Plow, of which the following is off in an upward direction, as indicated at A3. a full, clear, and exact description. Now by the arrangement described the The object of the invention is to provide a hinged or apex end of the snow-plow readily 6o new and improved snow-plow arranged for enters the snow, and as the-blades A diverge :o attachment. to a road-m achine and adapted to rearwardly and then curve outwardly at their open up a road covered with snow, the plow extreme rear ends it is evident that the snow being simple and durable in construction, is gradually pushed sidewise by both blades very effective in operation, and arranged to on moving the snow-plow through the snow, 65 easily move the snow sidewise without requirso that very little power is required for the ing much power to move the plow forward forward movement of the plow to form apath through the snow. of a desired width. By curving and inclin- Theinvention consists ofnovel features and ing the rear ends of the blades, as described, parts and combinations of the same, as will be the snow pushed sidewise is not liable to roll 7o more fully described hereinafter and then back and fall into the path made by the plow, 2o pointed out in the claims. and, furthermore, the banks of snow piled up Apractical embodiment of the invention is sidewise are inclined, so that the snow will represented in the accompanying drawings, leave the path free and clear.

forming a part of this speciiication, in which Having thus described my invention, I 75 similar characters of reference indicate correclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters spending parts in all the views. Patent- Figure l is a longitudinal sectional eleva 1. A snow-plow, comprisinga pair of longition of the improvement on the line l l of tudinal blades secured together by a hinge, a Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. pair of chains connected with said blades for 8o Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same on the purpose of flexibly connecting said blades 3o the line 3 3 of Fig. l, and Fig. 4. is a like view to the frame of a road-machine, and a pair of of the same on the line 4 a of Fig. l. brackets connected with said blades for the rIhe sides or blades A of the snow-plow are purpose ofconnecting said blades to the frame connected together at their forward ends by of said road-machine independently of the 85 a hinge B to allow of swinging the blades into connection made by said chains.

the desired angle relative one to the other to 2. A snow-plow, comprising a pair of longiopen up the road in a wider or narrower path, tudinal blades flexibly connected together, accordingto requirements. Theforward ends thereby forming a substantially V-shaped of the blades A are connected by chains O member, a pair of chains connected with said 9o with the supporting-beams D of a road-mall-shaped member adjacent to the junction of 4o chine of any approved construction, and the said blades for the purpose of flexibly consaid supporting-beams are also connected by necting said V-shaped member to the frame brackets E with the blades A at the inside of a road-machine, and means for connecting thereof and near their rear ends, as plainly said V-shaped member to said frame inde- 95 indicated in Figs. l and 2. pendently of the connection made by said The'supporting-beams D of the road-machains.

chine can be raised or lowered in the usual In testimony whereof I have signed my manner and swung sidewise to cause the name to this specification in the presence of blades A to assume the proper position both two subscribing witnesses. roe as to the road-bed and the width of the path WILLIAM IV. FOSS.

5o to be made by the snow-plow. The lower Vitnesses:

edges A of the forward portions of the blades A. L. DEUEL,

A are flared outwardly, as plainly indicated L. S. SHARPSTEEN. 

